Burberry’s new creative designer Daniel Lee hosted his first fashion show featuring big bright blue jackets in tartan patterns, oversized trench coats and handbags adorned with badger-like tails ...

Understanding Tartan Patterns Tartan patterns, also known as plaids, are deeply rooted in Scottish history. Each tartan design represents a specific clan, region, or historical event. When selecting a ...

An official Guernsey tartan has been created by a local textile designer. Katy Barratt said she had been inspired by a trip ...

The finishing touch of Kate’s look was a blue and green tartan scarf, which served as the centerpiece on which Princess Charlotte’s complementary holiday sartorial statement was based.

In Scotland, Taking the Traditional and Making It New Tartan, whisky, restaurants in the middle of nowhere — all are being reimagined in newly fashionable “Outlander” territory.

Tartans with similar color ranges would have been found in the same location due to the use of local dyes, meaning those living in close proximity would have worn similar hues and patterns.

The diagonal bands and color blocks repeat to form a pattern of squares and lines and different tartan patterns have been associated with specific Scottish clans for centuries.

Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle’s Black Watch tartan pattern has to do with the history of plaid.

Kiltmakers and mills in Scotland offer services that include listing the pattern on a national registry. By Susanne Fowler DUNDEE, Scotland — Most people associate tartans with the kilts and ...

A space scientist has had a Mars Exploration tartan officially accepted and recorded with the Register of Tartans. Charles Cockell, professor of astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh, hopes ...

Under a new law signed by Gov. Gray Davis, Californians of Celtic descent can now sport a unique tartan modeled after the one used by the family of John Muir, the state's most famous naturalist.